Monday, May 4, 2009

Iran Denies Dennis Ross Planning a Visit ....(Denials of this type frequently mean the opposite?)


Press-TV 
"...Iran has dismissed reports claiming that Washington's point man on Tehran will be dispatched to Iran to meet with the country's officials. 
"A report published by Ria Novosti on a potential visit to Iran by the US State Department's special advisor for the Persian Gulf Dennis Ross lacks credibility," spokesman for the Iranian embassy in Moscow said on Monday. 

The report started circulating after Ross traveled to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and other Persian Gulf littoral states on April 28 to address regional concerns about the new US administration's strategy toward Iran. 

The RIA Novosti report also claimed that Ross was to be accompanied by NSC Senior Director Puneet Talwar and CENTCOM Deputy Commander Lt. Gen. John Allen in his Iran visit..."
Via TWN, here
Steve Clemons: "I have no further information, other than the world on the street in Doha, but it seems to me that denials from the Iranian press mean that something is afoot and we may be tilting towards Ross and others on the Obama team heading over..."

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